It has been pointed out that one could run out of inodes, and as much as
I credit that idea, it's a bogus thought. When fsck is "reconnecting" an
inode, it doesn't need to allocate a new one. The problem will be in
allocating new blocks/frags for directory entries, and it's almost
completely improbable that you'll be so hard up for frags that you can't
extend the directory. If you don't have lost+found, it's more likely
that you'll not be able to because you don't have one whole block free
for the initial creation of the directory.
--*greywolf;
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Sun hardware is great stuff. It's too bad their software has taken
such a downturn.